Press Release

Rogers Sportsnet and World Poker Tour Premiere WPT Canada Television Series

First of Four WPT Canada Episodes to Air the Week of September 1

(LOS ANGELES) August 29, 2008 –Rogers Sportsnet will begin exclusive broadcasts of a four-part poker series next week featuring WPT Canada™, the first ever Canada-specific World Poker Tour® (WPT) tournament series.

Well-known Canadian sports announcer, Jim Van Horne, will host the shows alongside poker pro “Cowboy” Kenna James.

The first of the four one-hour episodes will premiere the week of September 1 across Sportsnet East, Sportsnet Ontario, Sportsnet West and Sportsnet Pacific.

The WPT Canada TV series will highlight all-new high stakes action from the WPT Canada Coast to Coast Championships, a nine-day tournament series combining seven different poker events held at The River Rock Casino in Vancouver. Almost 2,000 players and pros traveled from around Canada and North America to compete for a piece of the $1.6 million total prize pool, a WPT Canada title and a chance at poker stardom.

The WPT Canada series kicks off with a two-part final table from the Coast to Coast Championships $1,000 three-day Bounty Event which saw 439 competitors battle for a seat in the first televised WPT Canada event and the $92,120 first place prize. Viewers will also see amateurs try to knock out poker pros like Brad “Yukon” Booth, Gavin Smith, Jody Trainer, Davidson Matthew, Antonio “The Magician” Esfandiari and “Cowboy” Kenna James to earn the cash “Bounty” on their heads. The first episode from this two-part show begins broadcasting Monday, September 1 followed by the second episode starting Wednesday, September 10. Check local listings for all broadcast times and dates.

Additional WPT Canada episodes will feature the Coast to Coast Championships Main Event final table, introducing six fresh faces from across North America, all vying to clinch the first WPT Canada title and the $224,100 first place prize.

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ABOUT WPTE

WPT Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq: WPTE) is a company engaged in the creation of internationally branded entertainment and consumer products driven by the development, production, and marketing of televised programming based on gaming themes. WPTE is the creator of the World Poker Tour®, a television show based on a series of high-stakes poker tournaments that has been licensed for broadcast globally. WPT Season VI airs Monday nights at 9pm ET/PT on GSN in the United States, and WPT Season VII will air on FSN in 2009. WPTE also offers real-money online gaming on its website, www.worldpokertour.com, which prohibits wagers from players in the U.S. and certain other restricted territories. WPTE also has operations in mainland China, pursuant to an agreement with the China Leisure Sports Administrative Center where WPTE is developing and marketing the WPT China National Traktor Poker Tour. In January 2008, the company launched ClubWPT.com, an innovative subscription-based online poker club targeted to the estimated 60 million poker players in the United States and is currently offered in 38 States. WPTE currently licenses its brand to companies in the business of poker equipment and instruction, apparel, publishing, electronic and wireless entertainment, DVD/home entertainment, casino games, and giftware. The company is also engaged in the sale of corporate sponsorships. For show information, tools for improving poker play, and other WPT news, fans may log on to www.worldpokertour.com. WPTE is a majority owned subsidiary of Lakes Entertainment, Inc. (Nasdaq: LACO).

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The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a "safe harbor" for forward-looking statements. Certain information included in this press release (as well as information included in oral statements or other written statements made or to be made by WPT Enterprises, Inc.) contains statements that are forward-looking, such as statements relating to the expansion of WPTE's brand licensing, the development of new television and film projects, the development of WPTE corporate sponsors and other business development activities, as well as statements regarding other capital spending, financing sources and the effects of competition. Such forward-looking information involves important risks and uncertainties that could significantly affect anticipated results in the future and, accordingly, such results may differ from those expressed in any forward-looking statements made by or on behalf of WPTE. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risk that WPTE may not obtain sufficient sponsorship revenues for Season VII programming of the WPT; difficulty of predicting the growth of our online gaming business, which is a relatively new industry with an increasing number of market entrants; reliance on the efforts of CryptoLogic to develop and maintain the online gaming website in compliance with WPTE’s business model and applicable gaming laws; the potential that our television programming will fail to maintain a sufficient audience; the risk that competitors with greater financial resources or marketplace presence might develop television programming that would directly compete with WPTE's television programming; the risk that WPTE may not be able to protect its entertainment concepts, current and future brands and other intellectual property rights; risks associated with future expansion into new or complementary businesses; the termination or impairment of WPTE's relationships with key licensing and strategic partners; and WPTE's dependence on its senior management team. For more information, review WPTE's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Contact:

Lyndsay LaGree

WPT Enterprises

323 599 9145

llagree@worldpokertour.com